There are a number of established book series in which a religious figure features as part-time detective. We asked mystery author and scholar Martin Edwards to explain the character archetype and ...

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As he and his wife walked their Buffalo Grove neighborhood alone at the peak of the pandemic, bestselling author Raymond ...

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